Kelly Poe is a reporter at the Greensboro News & Record focusing on infrastructure, environment and development. She is a graduate of the journalism program at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. Before graduating, she completed internships at The News & Observer in Raleigh, The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette in Little Rock, The Herald-Sun in Durham and The StarNews in Wilmington — all of the places where she managed to persuade her editors to let her write about science, health and environment. She was also the City assistant editor for UNC’s independent student newspaper, The Daily Tar Heel.